Eiji Okada — Actor (24)
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Traffic Jam (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
渋滞
director: Mitsuo Kurotsuchi actor: Kenichi Hagiwara / Hitomi Kuroki …
other title: 渋滞
A hard working salaryman takes off five days from his busy job and sets off with his wife and two children to visit his parents in his hometown for the 1991 new year holidays. He decides that they will go by car to save on expenses. Unfortunately, the long drive from Tokyo to his hometown becomes a much longer journey than expected due to traffic, sickness and other misfortunes and by the time they arrive three days later, they only have time for a short but happy visit.
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The Eleventh Hour (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
どたんば
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Takashi Shimura / Shinjirō Ehara …
other title: どたんば / The Eleventh Hour 1957
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
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Hiroshima (1953) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
ひろしま
director: Hideo Sekigawa actor: Isuzu Yamada / Eiji Okada …
other title: ひろしま
Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its effects on various civilians, especially children, of that city.
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Magnitude 7.9 (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
地震列島
director: Kenjirô Ohmori actor: Hiroshi Katsuno / Shuji Otaki …
other title: Erdbeben - Flammendes Inferno von Tokio / Terremoto 81 …
A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.
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ESPY (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
エスパイ
director: Jun Fukuda actor: Hiroshi Fujioka / Kaoru Yumi …
other title: Espy minaccia extrasensoriale / Esupai …
The film deals with the recruitment of race car driver Jiro Miki (Masao Kusakari) and his dog, Caesar, to a group of people who use ESP, psychokinesis, and other special mental abilities to fight crime.
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The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail (1980) [Movie] TMDB
幸福号出帆
director: Kōichi Saitō actor: Mariko Fuji / Ichiro Kurakoshi …
other title: 幸福号出帆
Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.
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Blood Type: Blue (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ブルークリスマス
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Hiroshi Katsuno / Keiko Takeshita …
other title: Blue Christmas / ブルークリスマス …
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.
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Sanshiro Sugata (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
姿三四郎
director: Seiichiro Uchikawa actor: Yūzō Kayama / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: Sugata Sanshiro / 姿三四郎 …
Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.
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I Am a Cat (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
吾輩は猫である
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Eiji Okada …
other title: Je suis un chat / 吾輩は猫である …
Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especially fans of Nakadai will appreciate how the actor comically rants about here. His home life is almost disastrous, with a ditzy (but attractive) wife, three young children, a loud school nearby that’s controlled by a corrupt businessman he loathes, and frequent visits from layabout friends. And the grey-furred, green-eyed cat!
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The X from Outer Space (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
宇宙大怪獣ギララ
director: Kazui Nihonmatsu actor: Shunya Wazaki / Itoko Harada …
other title: Odissea sulla Terra / Guila - Frankensteins Teufelsei …
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.
1960s japan kaiju monstermiru scifi
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The Yakuza (1974) [Movie] TMDB
The Yakuza
director: Sydney Pollack actor: Robert Mitchum / Ken Takakura …
other title: Yakuza / Den hemmelige liga
When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.
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Zatoichi's Conspiracy (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
新座頭市物語・笠間の血祭り
director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda actor: Shintarō Katsu / Yukiyo Toake …
other title: Zatôichi's Conspiracy / La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 25 : Retour au pays natal …
Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nurse as Zatoichi. He also encounters a boyhood friend, Shinbei, who is now wealthy and appears not to remember Zatoichi. Shinbei seems to be interested in repaying the villagers' debts, but is, in reality, manipulating the ownership of a now valuable rock quarry. Zatoichi learns of the subterfuge and confronts his old friend, who has a score of yakuza swordsmen backing his play.
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The Face of Another (1966) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
他人の顔
8.8 (10 ratings) director: Hiroshi Teshigahara actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Mikijiro Hira …
other title: Il volto di un altro / 他人の顔 …
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
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The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb
遙かな時代の階段を
director: Kaizo Hayashi actor: Masatoshi Nagase / Haruko Wanibuchi …
other title: 遙かな時代の階段を
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.
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Silence (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
沈黙 SILENCE
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: David Lampson / Mako …
other title: 沈黙 SILENCE / Silencio
Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.
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Samurai Spy (1965) [Movie] TMDB
異聞猿飛佐助
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Kōji Takahashi / Shintarō Ishihara …
other title: 異聞猿飛佐助 / La guerre des Espions …
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swordsmen is thrown into turmoil. After Sasuke is unwittingly drawn into the conflict, he tracks Tatewaki, while a mysterious, white-hooded figure seems to hunt them both. By tale’s end, no one is who they seemed to be, and the truth is far more personal than anyone suspected. Director Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy, filled with clan intrigue, ninja spies, and multiple double crosses, marks a bold stylistic departure from swordplay film convention.
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This Transient Life (1970) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB TMDB
無常
director: Akio Jissoji actor: Michiko Tsukasa / Ryo Tamura …
other title: La Vie éphémère / Mujo …
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.